Final review of 2015 and kick-off of 2016 innovation activities of the Privacy, Security and Trust action line

Achievements of 2015 and expected outputs of 2016 for the innovation activities of Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) action line was on agenda of the two-day meeting/workshop that took place on February 2-3 at the Berlin co-location centre.

PST is one of the action lines driving innovation & entrepreneurship strategy of EIT Digital. According to the priorities set by the action line, the most promising research results, disruptive technologies and business strategies are selected from EIT Digital ecosystem and beyond each year through the Call for activities. They are “packaged” in Innovation Activities and start-ups with ambition to drive these innovations to succeed in world markets and become European success stories.

In 2015, PST action line addressed the growing challenges of data security and privacy by putting into practice innovative privacy preserving and secure information technologies to protect sensitive data and the privacy of individuals in the Information Age.

The innovation activities from 2015 presented results according to or exceeding the expectations. The outputs include also innovative business modelling and market analysis, demonstrating that the business impact can be achieved by putting to market either the innovative technology or, in most cases, the innovative privacy & security services adapted to various use cases based on the technology.

Three privacy-preserving pilots of HC@WORKS for the use cases of e-health (CEA LIST, ATOS), intrusion detection in network traffic (CEA LIST, Thales), and security intelligence in social networks (Engineering, CNR).

Two new software technologies of Mobile Shield: for static & dynamic analysis of mobile Apps (UNI Trento) and for APT detection and sanitization based on secure hypervisor virtualization technology (TU Berlin).

One created startup: Crowdee for privacy-enhanced mobile-based crowdsourcing (TU Berlin).

Engineering Privacy and Security in Crowdsourcing Environments along all Components: introduces privacy and confidentiality aware crowd- and expert services for crowdsourcing of confidential enterprise data.

Homomorphic Cryptocomputing @ Works (HC@WORKS): finalization of a unique ground-breaking software-only technology demonstrating the practicality of computing directly over encrypted data by means of homomorphic encryption, in the intendedly diverse industrial fields of e-health, cybersecurity and forensics, with market launch in 2016-2017 timeframe.

Federated Identity Management System (FIDES) – Phase II: finalization and deployment of an EU-wide platform for federated identity management, which may constitute a unified tool to access the EU Digital Single Market.